If you're serious about becoming a journalist, PMA's nine-week Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism is the fastest way to gain all the skills demanded by the leading print and online publishers. We're now interviewing for the Summer 2012 and Winter 2013 courses. Places are offered on a first-come basis. If you want to discuss what we look for, before sending in your application, please call Riva on 020 7383 5800.

Accredited by the Periodicals Training Council (PTC) and approved by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
WINNERS OF THE PTC's NEW DIGITAL CONCEPT CATEGORY for Festival Business - 19 October 2011
Tutored by top journalists rather than academic lecturers.
Designed specifically to get you a job.
Small group size: a maximum of just 15 trainee journalists.
23 award-winning years at a central London location.

NEWS

25/1/12

Some excellent news... Becky Waller-Davies started as junior reporter on Greenbuild magazine, part of Hamerville, this week. So that's all the postgrads from the last course in getting good jobs in the teeth of a tough couple of years.

The current PGs are working on the launch of their magazine. They are getting some good feature and news stories. More will be revealed nearer to the launch date.

14/1/12

Phew! The first Winter 2012 week has flown by. The group is getting to grips with the pace of the course and finding out about each other. They will grow in confidence as they realise they are learning from their mistakes (they will be making a few more yet....).

9/1/12

It's day one of the Winter course and the group are settling in to discover the little treats we have in store for them. The newspapers have arrived, the coffee pot is topped up and the quizzes and tests have begun!

19/12/11

Lottie's GOT A JOB!!

Lottie Linter, who has been working at Cath Kidston as a paid press and PR assistant since the summer course ended, has just had a great Christmas present – a full-time job as web content assistant.

She wrote: “The press team wanted to keep me on, but I applied for another job that came up internally and got it!

“I have to do all copywriting for the website. I'll also get to expand the website over the next year to include more editorial etc (which I will be in charge of) under the new e-comm director.

“I had every skill they wanted from me (feature writing, SEO, HTML, copywriting, proofreading...), as a result of PMA. So thank you!”

6/12/11

Two former PMA alumni have set up in business together, specialising in all forms of PR, marketing and media for companies in the sports, outdoor and related sectors. Alistair Phillips and John Kitchiner attended our postgraduate course in magazine journalism in the summer of 1992 and went on to be editors of various sports and outdoor titles. “We’ve stayed friends ever since, and it somehow made sense to work together,” Alistair said.

“We reckon that we cover all the bases, from consumer magazines and B2B publishing, high-profile websites and national newspapers, picking up several prestigious awards along the way. We’ve also run major publishing brands and led teams at the biggest media houses in the world. This should be a great test of our friendship!”

The company, Spindrift, can be found at www.spindrift101.com

5/12/11

Mike Butcher, TechCrunch Europe, is a social phenomenon. Recently he's been to Buckingham Palace to meet the Royals... and then I spotted him in consultation with the Prime Minister. Where to next?

1/12/11

Sent out an email shot from Prospects today. So if you're one of our new visitors... welcome to PMA. Thomas Hobbs from the last course has just secured a job on Growth Business, part of Vitesse Media in Old Street. Well done Tom. And tonight we have a reunion of the class of Winter 2011. They are gathering to celebrate being winners of the PTC's New Digital Concept Magazine 2011. And to scrutinise the print magazine that pipped their magazine Festival Business to the post ... Poppy ... Looking forward to their comments on that one!

28/11/11

Two former PMA graduates have just got married. David Quainton, who took the postgraduate course in 2004 and is now editor of the lifestyle magazine PA Life, has wed Gemma O’Reilly, who took the course a year later. Gemma is now online editor at Third Sector.

The wedding took place in the New Forest and they are honeymooning in Antigua.

There’s clearly something romantic about PMA’s nine-week course: this is the sixth marriage of former graduates!

By the way.. we're now full for the Winter course. If you want to apply for the Summer course, we're interviewing from next week.

21/11/11

We have one last place on the Winter course because one person has had to defer. It's not too late to get that application in now. We have extended the deadline to this Friday 25 November. Please let us know if you are going to apply, so we can schedule an interview. Call Riva on 020 7383 5800.

14/11/11

Applying for this course online? There has been an upload glitch with older versions of Internet Explorer, so please use Firefox or Safari if you want to avoid the frustration of losing the application. The webby man is looking into this for us!

4/11/11

We're hosting the NCTJ exams today. You may think it odd we don't offer these exams. There's a good reason for that. For instance... one of the NCTJ candidates from the Oxford Mail said it took him 18 months to produce a folder of stories for his assessment. Our students produce twice that amount in six weeks. The NCTJ reporting exams are made up stories that everyone has to write so that examiners can compare their work. Our lot take exams or tests most days of the course based on real life news and stories. We know what editors prefer to see.

2/11/11

Interviewing today for the Winter course. It's a thorough process, but we have to be sure all candidates can cope with the speed and intensity of this learning process. The new video (up soon) will prove that the course works if you work on getting to grips with all the skills a multimedia journalist needs. That's why this Summer's postgrads found good jobs so fast.